Director of Melania Trump film exposed in Epstein files drop: report

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Ratner is a pervert who abused women and was a good friend of Epstein

Director of Melania Trump film exposed in Epstein files drop: report
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Brett Ratner, the director of “Melania,” the new documentary about First Lady Melania Trump, was spotted in the Justice Department’s Friday release of thousands of files on Jeffrey Epstein, Vanity Fair reported late Friday.

Among the thousands of files released by the DOJ Friday, internet sleuths were quick to identify Ratner in an undated photograph with a shirtless man that appears to be Jean-Luc Brunel, a French model scout and owner of the international modeling agency MC2 Model Management, which has considerable financial backing from Epstein.

Brunel died by apparent suicide in 2022 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, as did Epstein in 2019.

Ratner made his directorial debut in the 1990s with the release of “Money Talks,” and went on to direct the popular “Rush Hour” films before being ousted from Hollywood in 2018 amid sexual misconduct allegations. While he moved to Israel in 2023, Ratner is now set to direct “Rush Hour 4” after the project was greenlit by Paramount, and after President Donald Trump “lobbied” for the studio to take up Ratner’s project.

Ratner was also selected to direct “Melania,” set for release in select-theaters on Jan. 30, 2026. The film was announced in January of 2025, an indication that Ratner was likely still held in high regard among the Trumps, further supported by Donald Trump’s push for Paramount to fund “Rush Hour 4” with Ratner at the helm.

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1. Here is Melania, three days ago, singing the praises of Brett Ratner,

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2. Six women accuse filmmaker Brett Ratner of sexual harassment or misconduct

The director of this film is an asshole and was a good friend of Epstein

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https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-brett-ratner-allegations-20171101-htmlstory.html

Natasha Henstridge was watching a movie on Brett Ratner’s couch when she fell asleep. She was a 19-year-old fashion model; he was an up-and-coming music video director in his early 20s. They had been hanging out in front of the TV with friends at his New York apartment.

But when Henstridge woke up, the others had left. She was alone with Ratner. She got up to leave, Henstridge said, but he blocked the doorway with his body and wouldn’t budge. He began touching himself, she said, then forced her to perform oral sex.

“He strong-armed me in a real way. He physically forced himself on me,” she said. “At some point, I gave in and he did his thing.”

Ratner, through his attorney Martin Singer, disputed her account.

Since that incident in the early 1990s, Henstridge has found success as an actress — starring in the films “Species” and “The Whole Nine Yards.” But she said she has carried the memory of the run-in with her, and watched from afar as Ratner became one of Hollywood’s most powerful players — directing, producing or financing dozens of today’s biggest box-office hits, including “Rush Hour,” “X-Men: The Last Stand,” “The Revenant” and “Horrible Bosses.”

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3. So Bezos paid off Ratner and Melania? The plot thickens.

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5. Connections..?

Amazon Found 'High Volumes' of Child Abuse in Its AI Data

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/amazon-found-high-volumes-child-195128350.html

Amazon Found ‘High Volumes’ of Child Abuse in Its AI Data

Annemarije de Boer
Thu, January 29, 2026 at 11:51 AM PST

Amazon flagged hundreds of thousands of suspected child sexual abuse images while building AI training datasets in 2025—a staggering volume that dwarfs competitors’ reports and exposes the tech industry’s reckless data collection practices. The e-commerce giant’s proactive scanning discovered this illegal content in externally sourced web data, leading to over one million reports to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

Missing Context Hampers Child…

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220985285

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4. Melania is very comfortable around sexual predators.

So it seems.